What men in all the world have shown such daring?

It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.